Edgar Welty is a disabled veteran. He served as a volunteer for the Chaplains at the Veterans' Administration's San Francisco Medical Center.
He was in uniform in the U. S. Army as a Construction Draftsman for four years from April 20h 1976 until April 21st 1980.
His vocation is as a minister of the Word and Sacrament in the United Church of Christ. After earning a four year Master of Divinity Degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 2000 for a call to United Church of Christ Congregation in Rochester New York. From there he served as Pulpit Supply in two Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregations. The first was in the village of Cohocton. New York. The second was in Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He is in the process of writing/publishing two more books. The first is a workbook entitled, "Spiritual Insight Training for Veterans". The Second shall be called, "God and America's Wars". He is also planning a DVD on Christian Symbolism. With his wife, a wedding dress designer, he is planning a book entitled, Ceremony: Planning Your Perfect Wedding.
He is a Chaplain (Capt.) in the 31st. Reg't, United States Volunteers/America and a member of: the Disabled American Veterans, the Scottish-American Military Society and Vets to Vets.
He lives with his wife, Amy; cat. Willy; and Chihuahua, Pete in the "Sleepy Hollow" neighborhood near San Anselmo, CA
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